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Tuesday, 7 August 2012

House Hunting

The first challenge, on our house hunting trip to the Comox Valley, was
finding the cottage we had rented as our search base. This was due to
moi forgetting to bring the address. Ever resourceful, I suggested going
to the Visitor Information Centre.

The other person on the trip had a complete meltdown. I had to listen to whining regarding the torture of driving to the centre (10 minutes), his absolute certainty the visitor centre would have no information on tourist accommodation ( I had no answer to this) and the heat (true).

We unfortunately drove past the turning to the centre-I didn't see the sign. More fuming. Might I suggest a bigger sign?

Amazingly, as soon as we walked into the pleasantly cool building we found advertising for Honey Grove. In addition, the lovely young lady at the desk had visited the property only the week before. Dr. Bob scored points by refraining from explaining the reason we needed the address. I reciprocated by swallowing the "I told you so".

Then followed days and days of seeing the most awful houses which looked similar to the following: